Quotes About Business

We will let it simmer" was a saying John employed throughout his business career.

It was a self-indulgence on a magnificent scale, and a source of great anxiety and at times weakness to his firm, which could well have used the money as capital in the business if he had not spent it so lavishly.

Standard merely had to dump oil at cost to stamp out competitors.

There was a small wire-mesh holder on the counter, full of business cards supplied by the MoneyGram franchise. A side benefit, presumably, along with the commission. Reacher took a card and read it. The guy's name was not Maloney. Reacher asked him, "You got a local phone book?" "What for?" "I want to balance it on my head to improve my deportment." "What?" "I want to look up a number. What else is a phone book for?

You're not dressed like a Mormon." "So you go knock on the door. Just in case. If he's there, tell him you're a Mormon who is coincidentally also in the snowplow business, and you want to talk to him about insurance against global warming.

He was calm. Just another night of business as usual in his long and spectacularly violent life.

She was embarrassed at first, then placatory, and then she got down to business.

A mile from the bus route Muller met Dremmler in a pastry shop. It had four small tables, all of them occupied by pairs of men just like themselves, friends but not really, bound together only by a proposition, be it buying or selling or hedging or insuring, or investing or leasing or renting or flipping. Or making a stand against crumbling national identity. Dremmler

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and that's good news for the bodyguard business.

It was in good standing with the State of Illinois. It had articles of association. Shareholders.

But I do think that our national leadership consists of too many lawyers and not enough people from business. I'd like to see a system where we brought in twenty top managers to run the business side of the country and maybe even paid them $1 million a year, tax-free. That would be a real incentive, and then we'd see a lot more talented people interested in public life.

The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same time making the everyday transactional world more porous, more open to the forbidden. The wolf of unbridled appetite slips into everyday convention in the sheep's clothing of commercial language.

We afford automatic respect to superstar business moguls, politicians, and actors and to anyone flying around in a private jet, as if their accomplishments must reflect unique qualities not shared by those forced to eat commercial-airline food.

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

Charles Spurgeon underscored this point, saying, "For every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' . . . I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it."51

How should I know? said Alice, surprised at her own courage. It's no business of mine. The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming Off with her head! Off with-- Nonsense! said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.

Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is- Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!' 'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody minding their own business!' 'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess.

Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!' There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, 'Sure, I don't

Prof. Walter Dill Scott says: Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—to acquire it.

Los asesinatos eran una razón más para pasar la noche bebiendo y bailando. Eran muy buenos para los negocios.

just a pied-à-terre that he uses for business entertaining, but it's tastefully done in wall-to-wall money. And the colors are smart—in a ghastly way. I've used Eggplant, Spinach, and Overripe Melon.

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He was different from every other man she knew. He was capable of loving; he was at once a laughing daredevil and a hard-hitting businessman. But most of all, he needed her. Other patients had needed her, but only as a therapist. Blake needed her, the woman she was, because only her personal strengths had enabled her to help him with her trained skills and knowledge. She couldn't remember anyone ever needing her before.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.